Oh dear
A word of explanation if I may.
I was at Wells in my role of Membership Secretary not as an official photographer. I could not get on-line at all whilst in Wells Town (City?) Hall, so was unable to post any pictures to anywhere, nor to send or receive any e-mails, nor was I able to help any members register to access the members' area, which I'm almost always asked to do and was this weekend too; nor could I access the forum or website to show members things that they asked about. All damn inconvenient, but that's the way it is.
At the hotel where I was staying it wasn't much better either. On Friday evening, in my room, I was able to access the internet via my o2 dongle, (which I pay for) although the signal strength was low, but at that time I hadn't taken any pictures, although I did manage to do some Mem Sec work before going to bed.
On Saturday morning from exactly the same place I couldn't get on line at all...no signal, but hey ho, off to the show.
On Saturday, for my own pleasure and delight, on my break from the stand, I took a grand total of 26 pictures. These were in no way intended to be a representative view of the show, nor were they in any way an official record, they were entirely my own choice. When I got back to my room on Saturday evening, still no internet, I transfered the pictures from my camera to my computer and after having had a look at them I then selected 10 of them as being suitable to share with others.
Although my dongle wouldn't work I was able to take advantage of 30 mins free access to the hotel's wi-fi. I uploaded the pictures to facebook rather than here because it was easier than uploading them to this forum. With facebook I could highlight them all and upload them in one go, but to upload them here I needed to reduce them in size upload them one by one and then place them 'inline', i.e much more of a faff and time consuming. Having uploaded them to facebook then, as I was tired, I decided to go to bed.
This morning, in the hotel, I
was able to access the internet, although the connection was still poor and I managed to upload four pictures here before I had to stop for breakfast, then pack and leave.
I'm not trying to 'make' anyone use facebook nor use that as the primary channel of Society communication, it just happened to be the most convenient way for me to upload my pictures last night. There is no 'official' policy here, just Danny Cockling acting in his own private capacity.
If I could have accessed the internet at the show I would have uploaded pictures here, probably in several posts, during the course of the day.
There were of course lots of other people with cameras, many of whom are probably Society members, none of whom appear to have uploaded any pictures at all
So no conspiracy, and no Tim I won't be opening any accounts in any other media as I don't like social media very much either and am a minimal user of facebook and twitter.
Now that I'm home, from an extremely enjoyable show, and have had something to eat and put my feet up, I shall, in a while, upload some of the other pictures that I took. I took some more today, but I haven't had time to have a good look at them yet.
There is also the issue of filling up our memory space with pictures, perhaps John could let us know if this is likely to be a problem, and I have at other times uploaded pictures to Flikr with a link to them here.
All the Best
Danny
